RSSIn the U.S. policy arsenal, a series of specialized weapons stand ready to defend democracy, and perhaps of equal importance, to serve Washington’s strategic interests abroad. In “Gunboat Democracy; U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama” (2006), Professor Russell Cra[...]
Archive for the ‘Dominican Republic’ Category
Stateless in the Dominican Republic
The saying that old wounds run deep has never proven truer than in the case of the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries sharing the island of Hispaniola. Since declaring independence from its neighbor in 1844, the Dominican Republic has visibly outmatched Haiti [...]
Readership Responds to COHA Research
COHA has received a number of letters in response to several of the articles it has published over the past few weeks. In the interest of fostering a healthy debate on the issues that COHA’s research addresses, we are printing a selection of the most considered responses below, and we encourag[...]
The Legacy of Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez
One of the courageous and gallant heroes in the Dominican Republic’s history played a key role in the 1965 uprising against the military dictatorship Called upon the world to condemn racism and human rights abuses The woeful mutual history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti (which share the[...]
Francisco Caamaño Deñó, Presente
COHA is pleased to release the first in what will be an ongoing series of articles on forgotten Latin American heroes. Today’s commentary on a celebrated Dominican constitutionalist will be followed in the coming weeks by features on a revolutionary Colombian priest, the father of Barbadian indepe[...]
November 17th, 2008 - 11:05 am § in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Front Page, Honduras, Nicaragua, Press Releases
Dealing with a Bad Deal: Two Years of DR-CAFTA in Central America
Critics argue that for over a decade, the United States has been striving to create commercial inroads into Latin America by way of bilateral free trade agreements that benefit U.S. economic interests to the detriment of those of Latin America. A recent example of this trend was the passage of the D[...]
Analyst cites Dominican tourism’s ills, prescribes remedies
Despite the recommendations drafted by the UN Economic Commission for LatinAmerica and the Caribbean (CEPAL) in response to the languishing Dominican Republic tourism industry, local officials continue drafting ineffective proposals that ignore the root causes of this sector’s recent decline in re[...]
March 31st, 2008 - 7:30 am § in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, In the News, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Will U.S. economic woes expose Latin America to new turmoil?
JANE BUSSEY Is the party winding down? After riding an export boom that sent economic growth surging to its highest levels in three decades, Latin America now finds itself vulnerable to U.S. financial turmoil and the possibility that world commodity prices may fall. A slowdown would not only halt th[...]